Friday, April 21, 2006

The Things People Say

1. "The sleeping giant goes on the offensive: Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
    is ready to take the offensive."
   <http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/
       8373041/index.htm>
"My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other
 children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed:
 You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."

2. "President Bush's remarks on Economic Competitiveness"
   <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/
       AR2006041801057.html>
"The iPod, interestingly enough, was built on years of government-funded
 research in microdrive storage and electrochemistry and signal compression"

3. "Bush brings campaign across the Potomac"
   <http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=243903&nid=25>
"Bush added that 'the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes
 anyway'"

4. "Rumsfeld prose makes sweet music"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200403/s1070092.htm>
"Last year, newspaper columnist Hart Seely recorded Mr Rumsfeld's exchanges
 with reporters in Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald
 Rumsfeld.  One of those pieces, The Unknown, is Mr Rumsfeld's oft-repeated
 musing on the vagaries of intelligence, 'as we know, there are known knowns;
 there are things we know we know; we also know, there are known unknowns...'"
Related:
 * "Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld"
   <http://www.monkeyrivertown.com/brains.php?ART=438>
 * The Donald Rumsfeld Library of Quotations
   <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml>

5. "Jennifer Lopez wants to be American president"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1359116.htm>
"After conquering Hollywood and the pop charts, superstar Jennifer Lopez says
 she is ready to wrestle George W Bush out of the White House"

6. "Celine calls her Vegas audiences sleepy drunks"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1328796.html>
"Celine Dion has admitted that audiences at her Las Vegas show are often
 tired, drunk, sick and in some cases asleep"

7. "Charlize wants to marry Ozzy"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1130981.html>
"Charlize Theron says she would love to marry Ozzy Osbourne"

8. "'I haven't read a book in my life', says Posh"
   <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/08/14/1123957937512.html>
"Former Spice Girl singer Victoria Beckham, the wife of England soccer
 captain David, has confessed she has never read a book"

9. "Vanstone denies mocking aviation security measures"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1513051.htm>
"she allegedly complained about having to use plastic knives on planes, and
 used a bizarre example involving gouging someone's eye out with a pencil"